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Angliholic Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Flour, sugar, and eggs are some of the ingredients/elements/materials used

Flour, sugar, and eggs are some of the ingredients/elements/materials used to make cakes.

Do all of the underlined words fit in the above sample? If not, why not? Thanks.
  

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I'd stick with ingredients mainly because the word 'ingredient' has a very specific definition which makes it exactly the right choice in your sentence. key=40759&dict=CALD .

  • I'd stick with ingredients mainly because the word 'ingredient' has a very specific definition which makes it exactly the right choice in your sentence.
  • key=40759&dict=CALD .
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I'd stick with ingredients mainly because the word 'ingredient' has a very specific definition which makes it exactly the right choice in your sentence. Look at definition 1 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=40759&dict=CALD.

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